Annual Performance Plan
How the APP fits in with our strategy
The APP sets out what we must do in a particular year to implement our strategy so that we deliver value to all our stakeholders and ensure that we support national priorities.
In drafting our APP, the starting point is to understand the external and internal operating environment. With this in mind, the senior management team held a strategic planning session where we performed a SWOT analysis to identify the NWU's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
The aim was to identify favourable (opportunities) or unfavourable (threats) circumstances, which need proactive management to either pursue or ward off.
How the APP was revised in 2021
The APP is aligned with our 2015-2025 strategy and our 2020-2025 enrolment plan.
The purpose of the enrolment plan is to ensure that our budget is linked to national planning on student enrolment and funding (state subsidy) of public universities.
Our annual revision of the common strategic assumptions and performance planning for the next year considers the national imperatives as outlined in the National Development Plan (2011), The White Paper for Postschool Education and Training (2013), Building an Expanded, Effective and Integrated Post-school System (2014), and the African Union's Agenda 2063: The Africa we want.
Future outlook
An important assumption that informs our planning is that Covid-19 will not disappear in the near future, and that we will continue to function with health-related caution.
Covid-19 has also accelerated the implementation of our Digital Business Strategy. Our future digital platform will integrate students, partners, employees and things, in order to connect people to contextualised information and services.
This connected environment will feature modern digital delivery channels and a resilient integration platform. This will support our business and operating models, provide analytics-driven insights and enable exceptional customer experience, all aimed at differentiating this university from others.
On 16 November 2021, delegates from the NWU Business School and the North West House of Traditional Leaders concluded an important Memorandum of Understanding.
This agreement paves the way for support to the House of Traditional Leaders in bridging the capacity challenges associated with skills development.
As a key point of collaboration, the Business School will make practical and impactful contributions towards the cultivation of entrepreneurship within these rural communities.
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